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f Unirirnn VILLIAM II. BAKER, OF CENTRAL FALLS, RHODE ISLAND, AND FREDERIC E. KIP, OF MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 655,643, dated August '7, 1900. Application filed November 3, 1899. Serial No. 735,646. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, VILLIAM II. BAKER, residing at Central Falls, Providence county,

Rhode Island, and FREDERIC E. KIP, residingl at Montclair, Essex county, New Jersey, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Looms, of which the following is a speciiication.

Thisinvention relates to the class of looms 1o which employa series'of shuttles for supplying to the Web as required weft of different colors or kindssuch as box-looms, for example; and has for its object to supply full shuttles carrying weft of the several 'colors or kinds used in the weaving as the weft ot' a particular kind is exhausted.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate an embodiment of the invention, Figure l is a side elevation of the loom. Fig. la is a 2o plan of the magazine detent; and Fig. 2 is a front view of the side thereof seen in Fig. l-that is, the right-hand side. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the shuttle-placer detached. Fig. et is a view similar to Fig. l, but showz5 ing the shuttle-placer in operation. Fig. 4t is a detached detail View of the detaining device for the placer. Fig. 5 is a plan view showing the shuttle-box and a shuttle therein on a larger scale than the principal views 3o and including a diagrammatical View of the box motion and circuit connections. 6 is a vertical cross-section'of the shuttle-box, showing how the contacts thereon are placed. Fig. 7 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view of the shuttle, showing the circuit closer and breaker therein. Fig. S is a side view of the shuttle, on a smaller scale, showing the two side contacts. Figs. 9, 10, and 1l illustrate another electrical controlling device. 4o Fig. 9 is a diagrammatical plan view, Fig. 10 is a side view of the shuttle on the same scale as Fig. 9, and Fig. ll is an enlarged sectional view of the shuttle.

Ct represents the looin frame, and Z9 the breast-beam forming a part thereof.

c is the reed; d, tlie lay; e, the lay-swords; f, the crank shaft; g, the connectingrods which operate the lay.

h is the cam-shaft from which the picker- 5o stick z' is actuated, and j represents gearas in Fig. l.

wheels through which the shaft f drives the Shaft h.

All of the above parts are or may be constructed in a known manner.

On the lay is mounted a vibratable shuttlc-box lc. As herein shown, this box is open at the bottom and hinged or pivoted above, at Z, in brackets m on thelaye. It is adapted to be swung outward, Fig. 4, toward the rear and is returned automatically by a suit- 6o able spring u. In suitable brackets o on the breast-beam or loom-frame is secured aseries or set of upright magazines t0 contain shuttles 19, carrying weft of different kinds or colors, and for convenience of description these have been supposed to contain shuttles filled with weft of different colors and have been indicated by letters QR, QB, QG', and qw to distinguish them as containing red weft, blue weft, green weft, and white 7o weft, respectively. These magazines are grouped together, as clearly shown in Fig. 4, where they are represented in vertical transverse section. They may be conveniently considered as one magazine having a plurality of compartments, each compartment open at the bottom to deliver shuttles by gravity one by one into a shuttle-placer r, having four pockets or compartments which occupy positions under the respective maga- 8o zines normally or when the placer is situated The placer r is coupled to the upper longer arm s of a placer-lever fulcrumed at t on the loom-frame, and it is provided with a suitable retraeting-spring u. It' 85 the lower shorter arm o of the placer-lever be pressed toward the front of the loom, the placer r will be moved rearward or` toward the lay, and if the lay be at this time beat up the placer r will move over the lay, displac- 9o ing the shuttle-box 7c laterally by swinging it about its point ofsusp'ension, Figfa; The extent to which the arm o of the placer-lever is pressed forward determines the particular pocket of the placer that will be thus brought into the place of the shuttle-box on the lay, and one means of operating the placer under electrical control is clearly shown in Figs. l and 4E. On a lever w, suspended on the loome frame back of the placer-lever, are mounted roo at suitable intervals four clectromagnets OCR, fr, G, and 00W, and .these maybe considered as the controlling-magnets of the shuttlemagazines q, bearing, respectively, the same lettersthat is to say, the red magnet, the bluemagnet, the green magnet, and the fwhite magnet. Pivotally mounted on the lever tu are the several armature-levers y of the respective electroinagnets. The lay or lay-sword carries four daggers or tappets e, which are so placed that when a particular magnet is excited and the armature-lever thereof is attracted and elevated the lever thus elevated will be alined in the path of the tappet e opposite and 'corresponding thereto, so that when the lay beats up the tappet will impinge upon that armature-lever and swing forward the lever w, causing the lower free end thereof to strike the lower arm o of the placer-lever and rock said lever in a manner to move the placer forward to an extent dependent on the particular armaturelever which shall have been encountered. In Fig. 4 the magnet fr@ is represented as excited, and consequently the cell of the placer r, which receives shuttles from the magazine QG, has been brought to the proper position on the lay to be picked by the picker-stick t'.

The cells of the placer r, as represented in plan in Fig. 3, have been lettered in this view R, B, GandWfor convenience of reference. The placer is guided at its edges in the walls of the compound magazine, and it may have a spring buffer or cushion 2 on its front end, where it impinges on the shuttle-box 7i: for displacing the latter. To keep the shuttles from falling out of the open bottoms of the several magazine compartments when the placer shall move out from underthem, a spring stop device is employed. This device is seen in situ in Figs. 1 and 4 and detached in Fig. la. It consists of a sort of sliding grid 3, mounted in guides or ways just above the top of the placer and has a series of four beveled bars 4,which normally rest under the respective walls or partitions of the magazine-compartments, as in Fig. 1; but this grid is backed by a spring 5, which tends to press the bars 4 wedge-like under the piles Aof superposed shuttles in the magazine-compartments to support the shuttle; but when the placer r is returned to its normal position under the magazine, Fig. 1, aclip or clips 6 on the end of the placer engage and press back the grid 3, so as to permit the shuttles to descend into the placer.

Controlling means are provided whereby when a shuttle-carrying weft of a particular color becomes nearly exhausted it will on eutering the shuttle-box 7c complete an electric circuit through the particular electromagnet which corresponds to that color in the shuttle, and we will now describe the preferred manner of effecting this end or purpose on a box-loom.

The shuttle p, Figs. 7 and S, has hinged in it a spindle 7, and it has iixed in the outer face of one of its sides, Fig. 8, two ,contactplates 8 and 9. The plate Sis electrically connected in any convenient manner with a spring=contact breaker 10, and the plate 9 is electrically connected in anyconvenient manner within the shuttle with a contact pin or piece 11 in the shuttle, and normally when the shuttle is empty the spring 10 will be in contact with said pin 11, so as to close the circuit between the contactplates 8 and 9. Vhen, however, a bobbin 12 is slipped down over the spindle 7, the free end of the spring 10 enters a slot 13 in the bobbin at its butt, and the over-wound weft thereon, crossing the said slot, bears on an outwardly bent or curved portion of the spring 10 and presses the latter inward, thus moving it out of contact with the pin 11, so as to break the circuit between the plates 8 and 9. As shown in Fig. 7, the spring 10 is fixed in the body of the shuttle at one end and is loosely coupled to the head of the pivotally-mounted spindle, so that it liexes and follows the lat*- ter. The coupling may be simply an eye or keeper on the head of the spindle, through which the spring plays rather loosely. When theshuttle enters the box k, the plates 8 and 9 thereon come into contact with spring-contact terminals 13 and 14, respectively, on the box. One of these terminals is seen in Fig. 6. These contacts 13 and 14 are terminals of an electric circuit including a generator 15, Fig. 5, a conductor 16, with branches 17 through the coils of the respective electromagnets a; and terminating in a series of contact-terminals 18, situated near the box-motion 19 at the opposite side of the loom, and a return-conductor 20, which has a terminal 21 on the lifting-rod 22 of the box-motion 19. It may be well here to explain that when the box-motion 19 is operated by the usual mechanismto bring a shuttle-carrying weft of a certain color up or down to the raceway the terminal 21 of the return moves up or down with -it and is thus made to close the circuit through a particular magnet For illustrative purposes merely we have marked the shuttle-boxes in the box-motion, shown in Fig. 5, R, B, G, and WV, so as lto agree with these letters on the electromagnets in order that it may be readily seen that a shuttle with green weft is at the raceway or in playand that the circuit is closed by the terminal 21 `through the green magnet xG. If under these conditions the weft in the green shuttle in play shall become nearly exhausted or sufficiently so to allow the spring 10 to come into electrical contact with the pin, piece, or part 11, and this shuttle shall enter` the box 7o, such entry will complete the circuit through the magnet at, the current will flow from the generator l5 to the terminal 21,

thence to the branch 17, which leads to the magnet 0c, thence by conductor 16 to the spring-contact 13 on the shuttle-box, thence to the plate S on the shuttle, Figs. 7 and 8, thence tothe spring 10, thence to the pin 11,

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thence to the plate 9, thence to the springterminal 14 on the box, and thence back to the generator by conductor 20. The magnet :10G will be excited and will attract its armature-lever y, and on the beat-up of the lay the pocket (Gin Fig'. 3) of the placer r, which pocket contains a full green shuttle p, will be b'ought into position on the lay for picking.

As the lay is in its beatingup position when the placer moves to the position over the lay (seen in Fig. 4) and must move back to the position for picking it through the Warp-shed before the pickeracts, obviously the placer must move back with it. Hence means are provided for detaining the placer and coupling it to the lay until it is released by the pickerstick. This detainer is in the form of a pawl and ratchet. On the Linder side of the placer are four beveled teeth 23, one for each pocket in the placer and so situated as to respectively en gage a spring lever-pawl 24, carried by the lay. )When the placer is moved out over the lay until one of its pockets is over the latter, the proper tooth 23 engages the pawl 24, and as the lay moves back the placer is necessarily carried with it, the placer-lever s u yielding. When the proper point is reached, the picker-stick strikes and passes entirely through the placer-pocket lengthwise. As it passes clear ofthe placer a lateral stud 25 on the stick (seen in Fig. 2) rides under the long arm of the lever-pawl 36 and by rocking it releases the placer. The spring u then returns the latter toits normal position of rest. Obviously the varied extentof movement of the placer over the beat-up lay is attained by the tappets a, acting on the pendent lever w at different distances from its fulcrum or point of suspension.

In Figs. 5 to 8 we have shown a means for the electrical'selection of the color of the weft through the operation of the box-motion 19 of the loom, and have also shown a shuttle wherein the circuit making` and breaking device is mounted in the shuttle and entirely disconnected from the bobbin; but it will be obvious that we may employ other constructions for effecting these objects-as, for ex ample, those illustrated in our United States Patent No. 636,707, dated November 7, 1899. In this construction the selection of the color of the weft is effected by having special shuttles for each color, or special in so far that the contact-plates on the sides of the 'shuttles areset so as to close the circuit, each through its particular electromagnet, the magnets being in branch circuits. The shuttle instead of having its circuit breaker and closer on the shuttle has it carried by the bobbin. These constructions are illustrated in Figs. 9, 10, and 11 and will now be briefiy described. The conductor 26 of the circuit includes the generator 15 and has branches 27, which lead to the several electromagnets 00K, 00, m9, and .f2/5W. From the several magnets these branches lead to as many spring-contact terminals 28 on the shuttle-box 7.o. The shuttles p, as indicated by'fun and dotted nues in Fig. 1o,

will have their contact-plates 29 so placed as to contact when the shuttle is'in the box with the particular terminal 28 required-#that is to say, a shuttle carrying blue weft with the branch leading to the magnet as? and one with a white weft with the branch leading to magnet mW, as in Fig. 9. The shuttle seen in Fig. 11 shows the contact-spring 30 held out of contact with the contact-band 31 by the overwrapped weft, both contacts being on and carried by the bobbin precisely as illustrated in our pending patent before mentioned. As the shuttle-box is to be swung to one side by the placer it is desirable that the spring-contact terminals thereon shall be so mounted as to adapt themselves to this movement. Hence We prefer to employ the construction shown clearly in Fig. 6. The contact (13 in this figure) is secured to the side of the box 7c and insulated, and it has an upward spring branch or extension 82, which bears on the hinge-axis 33 of the shuttle-box, or, preferably, on a metal collar 34 thereon, the conductor 16 being connected electrically with this collar. The collar maybe insulated from the hinge-axis. This construction allows the box to be rocked without disturbing the contact of the branch 32 with the collar 34. When the shuttle-box is rocked and displaced, it throws out the empty shuttle, and this latter may be received in-any kind of tray or receptacle, as 35. (Seen in Figs. 1 and 4.)

The detainer has been described as a simple pawl-and-ratchet device, consisting of a pawl 24, engaging the teeth 23 on the placer and adapted to be displaced by a lateral stud 25 on the picker-stick; but in the speciiic construction which we prefer to employ and which is seen detached pin Fig. 4a the pawl 24 is not formed integrally with the operatinglever 36, but connected therewith by a link 37. This construction, however, is only adopted for convenience. Any arrangement which will detain the placer and which will free it at the proper time may be employed. Fig. 2 shows the spring 3S, which holds the pawl in engagement with the teeth on the placer.

To make clear the extent and scope of the present invention, we would' state that in our United States Patent No. 636,795, dated November 7, 1899, we show'means for supplying a loom, such as a box-loom, with shut tles bearing weft or liiling of different colors or kinds, and we do not claim, broadly, this feature of the invention; nor do We limit ourselves to it, as the other features of this invention are adapted to a weftsupplying mechanism where only one magazine is employed. It may also be stated that in our United States Patent No. 637,695, dated November 21, 1899, we show means for supplying a loom with filled shuttles wherein a placer is employed in connection with a vibrating shuttlewbox; but in this construction both the placer and IOOl IIO

the shuttle-box are actuated by a rotatingI lay or other vibrating point of the loom.

An important feature of thisinvention consists in providing a box-motion loom with means for supplying it automatically with weft or filling of different kinds or colors, as may be required and selected, electrical means for setting in operation said weft or filling supplying mechanism, said electrical means being controlled by the presence or absence of weft or filling in the shuttle, and an electrical switch device or selecting device whereby the shifting of the box-motion according to the requirements of the pattern serves to select and determine what particular kind or color of weft or iilling shall be supplied to the loom, and being the first, as we believe, to accomplish a result of this kind with the aid of electricity-we claim such electrical selection and control broadly.

Having thus described our invention, we Claim l. In a loom, the combination with a vibratable, swinging shuttle-box, and a magazine to contain filled shuttles, of a vibratable placer, adapted to swing the shuttle-box to one side by its impact thereon, and also to receive the shuttles from the magazine and carry them to the picking position, and means for vibrating said placer at proper times.

2. In a loom, the combination with a laterally-vibratable,swinging shuttle-box, a spring which returns said box to its normal position,

rand a shuttle-magazine, of a vibratable placer to transfer the shuttles 'from the magazine, said placer being adapted to swing and displace the shuttle-box sidewise by its impact thereon, and means for vibrating said placer at proper times.

3. In a loom, the combination with a shuttle-magazine, of a vibratable placer to take a shuttle from the magazine and carry it to the picking-point, a detainer for holding said placer at the picking position until the shuttle of the placer has been picked, means for operating the placer at proper times, means for releasing the latter when its shuttle has been picked, and a laterally-swinging shuttle-box, adapted to be displaced by and to make room fort-he placer.

4L. In a loom, the combination with a shuttle-magazine, of a vibratable placer to take a shuttle fromthe magazine and carry it tothe picking-point, a detainer for holding said placer in its position at the picking-point until the shuttle held therein has been picked,the picker-stick, means for operating the placer at proper times, means actuated by the picking operation for releasing the latter when its shuttle has been picked, and a swinging shuttle-box adapted to be displaced by the impact of the placer, to make room for the latter.

5. In a loom, the combination with a shuttle-magazine, and a vibratable placer for car'- ryin g a shuttle from the magazine to the pickin g-point, of a detainer for holding the placer at the picking-point until the shuttle therein has been picked, means for operating the placer at proper times, mechanism for picking the shuttle, means whereby the placernis released by the picking mechanism at the end of the picking operation, and a vibratable shuttle-box adapted to be displaced to make room for the placer.

6. In a loom, the combination with the lay, and a shuttle-magazine, of a vibratable placer to take a shuttle from the magazine and carry it to the lay, a detainer for holding said placer in its position on the lay until the shuttle of the placer has been picked, means for operating the placer at proper times, the pickerstick, means whereby said stick releases the placer through the picking operation, and a vibratable shuttlebox adapted to be displaced to make room for the placer.

7. Ina loom, the combination with the lay, the swinging, vibratable shuttle-box thereon, and a spring or springs for returning said box to place, of the vibrating placer adapted to displace or swing aside said shuttle-box by impact thereon.

S. In a loom, the combination with the lay, the vibratable shuttle-box thereon, and a shuttle magazine, of a vibratable placer, adapted to transfer a shuttle from the magazine to the lay and to displace at the same tim e the said sh Little-box, mechanism between the lay and said placer whereby the former operates the latter at proper times, and electrical means controlling the times of operation of the said intermediate mechanism, said electrical means being set in operation by the exhaustion or partial exhaustion of the weft or iilling in the shuttle in play.-

9. In a loom, the combination with the lay and a displaceable shuttle-box thereon, of a series of magazines or compartments for holding carriers of different kinds of weft or {illing, a vibratable placer having a series of pockets to receive weftcarriers from the respective magazines or compartments and carry them to the lay, means for operating said placer and shuttle-box, and electrical means for determining thev extent of movement of said placer toward the lay, said electrical means being set in operation by the exhaustion or partial exhaustion of the weft or filling on the weft-carrier in play.

IO. In a loom, the combination with the lay and a displaceable shuttle-box thereonfof a series of magazines or compartments for holding carriers of different kinds of weft or filling, a vibratable placer having a series of pockets to receive weft carriers lfrom the respective magazines or compartments and carry them to the lay, means for operating said placer and shuttle-box, and electrical means for determining the extent of movement of said placer toward the lay, said electrical means including a normally-open cir- IOO IOS

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cuit which is held open or closed by the presi ence or absence of Wett or filling in the shuttle in play.

11. In a loom, the combination with the lay and a displaceable shuttle-box thereon, of a series of magazines or compartments for holding carriers of different kinds of Wett or filling, a vibratable placer having a series of pocketsV to receive Weftcarriers from the respective magazines or compartments and carry them to the lay, means for operating said placer and shuttle-box, and electrical means for determining the extent of movement of said placer toward the lay, said electrical means including a normally-open circuit Which is held open or closed by the presence or absence of weft or filling in the shuttle'in play, the circuit being completed` by the entry of the shuttle into the said vibratable shuttle-box.

12. In a loom, the combination with the vibrating lay, and the shiftable shuttle-box mounted thereon, of a magazine having a series of compartments situated at different distances from the lay, a placer r, mounted slidably under said magazine and having a series of pockets corresponding to the several compartments of the magazine, means for operating said placer to advance it over the lay, and means for setting in operation at proper times the mechanism which operates said placer.

13. In a loom, the combination with the vibrating lay, the shiftable shuttle-box on the lay, andthe stationary magazine having a series of compartments situated at di tferent distances from the lay, of a placer r, slidably mounted under said magazine and having a series of pockets corresponding respectively to the several compartments ofthe magazine, means for operating said placer, means for detaining it when moved out over the lay, means for releasing the placer, and electrical means for setting in operation the placeroperating mechanism at proper times.

14. In a loom, the combination with the vibrating lay, the shiftable shuttle-box on the lay, and the stationary magazine having a series of compartments situated at diiierent distances from the lay, of a placer r, slidably mounted under said magazine and having a series of pockets corresponding respectively to the several compartments of the magazine, means for operating said placer, means for d'etaining it when moved out over the lay, means for releasing the placer, electrical means for setting in operation the placeroperating mechanism at proper times, and for controlling the extent of movement of the placer.

15. In a box-loom, the combination With the vibrating lay, a shiftable, single shuttle box 7c mounted therconat one side of the loom, a box-motion 19, at the opposite side of the loom, and a magazine With shuttlecompartments at that side of the loom Where the box 7c is situated, of the placer r, mechanism for operating the placer, electrical means, set in operation by the entry of the shuttle in play into the box 7n, for setting in operation the placer-actuatin g mechanism, and a switch device, actuated by the boxmotion, Which determines the extent of movement of the placer.

16. In a loom, the combination with the lay, the magazine having a series ot compartments, the vibra-table placer under the magazine, and means for moving said placer out over the lay, said means comprising a lever s o, a lever lw, a series of electromagnets mounted on the lever in at different distances from its fulcrum, the armature-levers of said magnets, and a series of' tappets e, moving with the lay, the said tappets and magnets corresponding in number to the pockets in the placer, of an open electric circuit having branches including said magnets, and terminals at a shittable shuttle-box on the lay, the said box, means carried by the several shuttles whereby exhaustion of the Wett on the shuttle in play closes said circuit on the entry of the shuttle into the said box, and means substantially as described for selecting and switching in the proper magnets.

17. In a loom, the combination with the lay, of the shuttle-box la, suspended thereon, the contact 13, mounted on the box and provided with a branch 32,` Which bears on a terminal at the hinge-axis, the said terminal, anda shuttle having a contact-plate on its face which forms a rubbing contact With the Vcontact 13 When the shuttle enters the box.

18. In a loom, the combination with the vibrating lay, the box-motion 19 at one side of the loom, the shuttle-'box 7c, at the other side of the loom, means for supplying shuttles IOO Carr-ying weft of the various kinds to replace 1 those exhausted, and electrical cont-rolling means comprising a series of magnets, an open electric circuit having branches including the respective magnets, said circuit having terminals at the shuttle-box Whereat the circuit is completed by the entry of an exhausted shuttle into said box, and a select ing-switch 21, operated by the box-motion to switch in the proper magnet, substantially as set forth.

19. In a weft-supply mechanism for looms, the combination with the lay, the box-motion `and the shuttle-box at the side of the loom opposite to the box-motion, of an electric circuit having branches 17 containing each an electromagnet and having a terminal 18, and theV main circuit having terminals at the shuttle-box and a terminal 21, carried bythe box-movement, whereby the shift.- ing of the boxes ot' the box-movement serves to put the proper magnet in circuit, substantially as set forth.

20. A shuttle provided with a hinged spindle, exterior contact-plates 8 and 9, a contactbreaking spring 10, set in the shuttle-body and connected electrically with one of said contact-plates, and a pin or piece 11, con- IIO' Igo

nected electrically with the other of said contact-plates, the parts 10 and 11 being normally in contact, in combination with a bobbin or holder for weft or filling, adapted to lit on said spindle and having in it a slot to receive the free end of the spring lO when said holder is in placeon the spindle.

21. A shuttle provided with a hinged spindle, exterior contact-plates Sand 9, a contactbreaking spring l0, set in the shuttle-body and connected electrically with one of said contact-plates, a pin or piece l1, connected with the other of said contacts, and means for connecting the spring lO to the spindle so that it may flex and follow the spindle when the latter is opened out, the parts 10 and 11 being normally in contact, in combination with a bobbin or holder for weft or filling, adapted to fit on said spindle and having in it a slt to receive the free end of the spring l() when said holder is in place on the spindle.

-22. A box-motion loom having the following instrumentalities, namely, means for automatically supplying Weft or filling of different kinds or colors as required, electrical means for setting in motion said supplying mechanism, said means being controlled by the presence or absence of weft or lling in the shuttle, and electrical selecting means, controlled by the box-motion of the loom, whereby the shifting of the box-motion determines the kind or color of weft or filling to be supplied.

In a loom, the combination with a shiftable shuttle-box situated at one side of the 100m, a box-motion situated at the other side of the loom, and a magazine having shuttlecompartments to contain shuttles carrying different kinds or colors of weft or filling, of a shuttle-placer having a plurality of pockets corresponding and pertaining to the respective compartments in the magazine, and means for moving said placer to the pickingpoint of the loom to furnish a fresh supply of weft or filling of the kind or color substantially exhausted in the shuttle in play.

24. In a loom, the combination with a shiftable shuttle-box situated a't one side of the loom, a box-motion situated at the other side thereof, and a magazine having a plurality of shut tlc-compartments to contain shuttles carrying Weft or lling of different colors or kinds, of a shuttle-placer having a plurality of shuttle-pockets corresponding and pertaining tothe respective compartments of the magazine,and means for operating said placer and controlling the times of its movements to the picking-point of the loom to furnish a fresh supply of Weft or filling of the color or kind being used by the shuttle in play, said means consisting of an electromagnet and an electric circuit including said magnet, said circuit being held open by the presence and adapted to be closed by the substantial absence of the weft or filling in the shuttle in play.

25. In a loom, the combination with a shiftthe respective compartments in the magazine,

means for operating said placer and shuttlebox, and electrical means for determining the kind or color of weft or lillingvwhich is to be placed in position to be picked through the Warp-shed, said electrical means being setin operation bythe exhaustion, or partial exhaustion of the weft or filling in the shuttle in play. v

26. In a loom, the combination with a shiftable shuttle-box situated at one side of the loom, a box-motion, situated at the other side thereof, and a magazine having a plurality 'of shuttle-compartments to contain shuttles carrying weft or filling of different kinds or colors, of a shuttle-placer having a plurality of pockets corresponding and pertaining to the respective compartments in the magazine, means for operating Vsaid placer and shuttleboX, and electrical means for determining the color or kind of Welt or filling Which is to be placed in position to be picked through the Warp-shed, said electrical means including a circuit which is held open or closed by the presence or absence of the weft or filling in the shuttle in play.

27. In aloom, the combination with the boxmotion, and the shuttle-box at the side of the loom opposite tothe box-motion, of an electric circuit having terminals at the shuttleboX, and a plurality of branches corresponding in number to the boxes in the box-motion, an-electromagnet in each of said branches, and a switch device controlled by the boxmotion and adapted to switch into the circuit the respective magnets as it is shifted, substantially as set forth.

In Witness whereof Wehave hereunto signed our names, this 25th day of August, 1899, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WILLIAM H. BAKER. FREDERIC E. KIP.

Witnesses:

CLAUDE J. FARNSWORTH, PETER A. Ross.

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